We have entered the era of "healthy eating." More and more people are making the commitment to eat quality, nutritious food as a major step in establishing a healthier lifestyle. They have begun to realize that a high-fat, high-sugar, empty-calorie diet will not sustain good health over the long-haul. Garden-Fresh Soups and Stews is a perfect cookbook to be used in that endeavor The recipes in this cookbook have been selected to help people prepare simple, nutritious soups and stews - both for cold winter evening meals and also for refreshing summer meals. Every recipe is made with garden-fresh vegetables combined with a few additional ingredients and seasonings that blend together in magical ways. The best part is that every recipe is extremely easy to prepare and will satisfy even the pickiest eaters in your family. The 41 delicious recipes are rich enough for one-dish meals or the perfect first-course for an elegant dinner that will please even the most discriminating palate.
About the Author: All things beautiful are my passion. I enjoy anything that a masterful hand creates - writing, photography, visual arts, cooking, the human body, the human spirit, technology, our beautiful world . . . and so much more. As a young child, I was very curious and always wanted to know why something worked and how it worked. My mother encouraged me to explore almost anything that interested me. She allowed me to take apart old clocks and radios so that I could figure out how they worked. She also gave me free reign in the kitchen to create my masterpieces of flour, sugar, spices, and anything else I could find in the cupboards. The more I learned, the more I wanted to know, which led me quickly to the discovery of the wealth of information available in books, plus the magical journeys I could take through the power of words! Reading became the center of my life. The town library was located in the Women's Club of the little farming community that I called home. In my eyes, it was the grandest building in town - newly built, with a heavenly air-conditioner that sheltered me from the blazing heat of Arizona summers. It was my personal cocoon in which I could read the hours away. My first adventure in writing came my senior year in high school when I decided to take a writing correspondence course, which was very forward-looking for the time. I experienced the first thrill of putting pen to paper. It was a magical new adventure! My love affair with the written word began. Unfortunately, my affair was dealt a serious blow during my first year in college when an English professor told me that I used a lot of words, but said very little. His words went to my very core and hobbled my writing confidence for a number of years. I continued to write, but not with the same excitement and enthusiasm that I had previously enjoyed. It was not until many years later that everything turned around. After completing my MBA as a "mature woman" I found a position with a Leadership Development Training Company in Manhattan that required use of three of my major passions: my insatiable curiosity of how and why things work, my love of learning through books, and my need to write and be published. I know, my work was not published in the traditional sense of the word, but my words were in print and people were reading them and using them to improve their professional lives. I had finally begun to realize my dream and living it on a daily basis.